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Dr. William E.
Volume XLVI
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 31, 1966
Number 25
FREEMAN, SIKES, ANDERSON, TO
RECEIVE SUlllVAN A WARD
going t
Peyton
This years’s presentations of the coveted Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards will be
to seniors Bobby Sikes and Betty Jo Freeman and to prominent newspaper publisher,
Anderson.
Umity Council. Sikes received the
Tbs Algernon Sydney SulHvmn
medallions are sponsored by the
New York Southern Society and
presented to two out*
•tending students In each year’s
graduating class, and to a promi
nent leader for distinguished serv
ice.
John Robert Sikes of Mecoa, is
Blue Key and has
this year.
Uef
Spright Dowell Award; was a
candidate for president of the
junior class; has been on the tennis
team for four years, and was
named Greek God, 1966.
Miss Betty Jo Freeman of Tal-
botton, Ge., has been a member of
W.A.A., B.8.U., the Cluster staff,
Sigma Mo, KDE and Sigma Tan
Gamma, and was Cardinal Key
Corresponding secretary. She has
■erred aa treasurer and president
if tfc» Debate Club; secretary,
treasurer and vice president of Ten
Kappa Alpha; and pregram chair-
nia of the French Club. 8he was
listed in Who’ Who Among Ameri
can Collages and Universities; has
appeared consistently on the Dean’s
List, and, on several occasions,
held the highest academic average
in her classes.
Peyton Anderson, this year's
civic leader chosen to receive the
award, is publisher of The Macoa
Telegraph and The Macoa N
Mr. Anderson has been in the news
paper business for fifty yean, her
ing started at age nine in the
offices of The Macea Telegraph.
The awards will be presented
during
June 6.
urdy (
is presented a certificate of honorary membership in Phi Alpha
Delta legal fraternity by Dr. Joseph A. McClain, speaker at
the Law Day luncheon and former dean of the Walter F.
George School of Law. Dr. McCurdy has been a visiting pro-
pessor of law at Mercer since 1960, the year he retired after
serving for 32 years as a member of the faculty of the Harvard
Law School Dr. McClain is now a Tampa, Fla., attorney.
Cluster
CAULDRON DEDICATED
TO DEAN F. R. OTTO
The students of Mercer University showed their resi
and admiration for their friend and guide, Dr. Francis Robert
Otto, Dean of Chapel, by dedicating this year’s Cauldron to
him Tuesday, May 24.
Dr. Otto, who has been at Mer
cer for ten yearn, baa been a source
of help and inspiration to counties#
students, both in his cl a wee and in
hie personal relationships with
tboee who search for truth, reason
and meaning in their lives. His
meeeagee in chapel have presented,
e challenge to each one that has
listened, and continue to do so
even now, both in their content and
in the thoughtful manner in which
each one is presented.
Dr. Otto is one of the people
most concerned with the welfare
of Mercer, which denotes to him
Mercer’e students. Hie thoughts
are always geared to the young
people who walk this campus, and
hie mind tuned to their feelings and
ideas He is often found with these
students vigorously debating some
point of theology or quietly discuss
ing some problem which is troub
ling a confused mind.
His lectures and speeches reflect
hie high esteem for the students to
whom he speaks. He spends much
time in study so he can speak
about matters relevant to the pres
ent, matters that are of pressing
concern to young people in ■ fast-
moving troubled age. His skirmish
es with the Georgia Baptist Con
vention give evidence of the dis
content with old trite subject mat
ter that has been presented so often
that it no longer has any meaning,
especially to open minds who really
are trying to learn.
One wonders how so many
pointed ideas can come out of a
single mind. Suffice it to say that
it is an exceptional mind, one witK
unusual power and insight Mercer
is truly fortunate to have one so
intelligent and beneficial among
her attendants.
COMMENCEMENT EXCERCISES TO
AWARD HONORARY DEGREES
Prominent Civic
Leaders Lauded
Four honorary degrees will
be awarded during commence
ment exercises Sunday, June 5.
The recipients of these degrees
will be Dennis William Bros-
nan, president of Southern Rail
way; Thomas Baldwin Martin,
director of work with National
Aiken
Martin
prominent Macon attorney; The Rev. Paul Raymond Aiken,
taptists for the Baptist General Convention of Texas; and
The Rev. Albert Lindsey Cardwell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Macon.
Names of the recipients were an
nounced by Dr. Rufus C. Harris,
president of Mercer. Bros nan will
deliver the commencement address
at 5:30 p.m., June 5, during cere
monies at which 264 graduates will
be awarded degrees.
Mr. Bros nan and Mr. Martin
will receive the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.
• « *
Mr. Bros nan, a native of Albany
and a graduate of Georgia Tech,
began his railroad career in 1926
as a student apprentice and track
laborer with the Southern Railroad
at Macon. He served in various ca
pacities with the railway system in
Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Ken
tucky and Alabama until 1952
when he was elected vice president
of Southern Railway System, with
headquarters at Washington, D. C.
He was elected executive vice
president in 1960, and has been
president since 1962.
As' president of the Southern
Railway System he is president,
chief executive, and a director of 15
railroads and companies, including
the Southern Railway Co. He is
chairman of the board of directors
and chief executive officer of. five
other railroads, including the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway Co., and
Georgia and Florida Railway Co.,
and the Savannah and Atlanta
Railway Co.
His is a director of several other
railroads, educational organiza
tions. civic enterprises, and finan
cial organizations, including the
Citizens and Southern National
Bank of Atlanta. He is a trustee
of the Committee for Economic De
velopment and of the National
Safety Council, and president of
the Defense Orientation Confer
ence.
Mr. Bros nan has been widely
recognized for his business and
civic endeavors. In 1963 he was
named the "Railroad Man of the
Year” and given the “National
Salesman of the Year" award of
Sales and Marketing Executives
International. He was awarded the
“George Washington Medal of
Honor" last year by the Freedoms
Foundation. Inc. for “outstanding
achievement in bringing about a
better understanding of the Ameri
can way of life."
Mr. Martin will be awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
in recognition for his services to
the legal profession, the commun
ity and Mercer University.
He is a senior partner in the Ma
con law firm of Martin, Snow,
Grant and Napier, and is a mem
ber of the board of directors of
Home Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Macon.
Mr. Martin was a 1914 graduate
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AWARDS DAY HONORS
OUTSTANDING STUDENTS
The annual Awards Day Program, held May 23 in Willing
ham Chapel, honored students and faculty members for out
standing performance during the school year. Social organiza
tions also were lauded for their achievements.
Miss Lynda Lee Dickens of the outstanding freshman male.
Sparta and Miss Patricia Jo
Mooney of Cartersville shared
honors for the Sigma Tau Gamma
Award to the freshman girl with
the highest academic average.
Miss Dickens was also recipient
of the Mother Montague Award,
presented annually by Cardinal
Key to the outstanding freshman
girl.
George Lee Phillips, Jr., of Ma
con received the Phi Eta Sigma
Trophy which is awarded to the
academic average.
John Winkle of
Rome was
named recipient of
the
Spright
Dowell Award which
is
given to
Other awards:
Chi Omega academic award to
the girl with the highest average in
social studies: Carolyn Broome
Grant, Macon.
Macon Chi Omega Alumni
Scholarship Award: Delores Wil
liams, Rooklet
General information quiz schol
arship award: First place, Jacob
Beil, Columbus; second place. Bill
Dayton, Dunedin, Fla.
Reading Award: John Everett.
Macon.
Acting Awards, presented by Al
pha Psi Omega honorary dramatic
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